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Riddle: Does Not Understand Doors
How should this sign be re-written to
clearly communicate the author’s intention?
Rewrite once with a positive verb.
Rewrite once with a negative verb.
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The Braille Riddle
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Promises and Prizes
Writing Skills
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
11/04/24
What Happened:
Street signs are proposal arguments
Please keep door closed
Braille for your feet
Braille Riddle
Promises and Prizes
What I Got:
Street signs are proposal argument because they are convincing the audience to adopt a proposed solution
Pay attention to simple things around you in the world
All writing works the same way
What I still have Questions about:
Nice
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Class Notes – 11/4/24
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Class Notes – phoenixxxx23
-Street signs are proposal arguments.
Reclose the door -positive
Do not leave the door open- negative
-The Braille is a tactile reading and writing system that uses raised dots to represent letters, numbers, punctuation.
-A common failing of first-draft Introductions is losing sight of the trees for the forest.
-We don’t need to be distracted by “other” methodologies or remedies at the expense of your targeted method.
-Find the “beating heart” of your story.
-Make and deliver on a promise with a prize, don’t write grey
-Books, chapters, paragraphs, sentences make promises and deliver prizes.
-The frequecy with which you leave prizes determines if you will keep a reader or not
-Find a balance between “green” & “blue”
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Class Notes 11/04/2024
Braille Riddle: braille is used around us everyday and is set for a reason, it’s used to communicate to the blind and keep them safe from traffic.
Writing tip to write well: What you need your reader to understand followed by the evidence and information to back it up. (promises and prizes).
Worth a 4 just for this:
Writing tip to write well: What you need your reader to understand followed by the evidence and information to back it up. (promises and prizes).
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Class Notes: 11/4/24
-All signs are recommending things, which creates arguments. If you don’t comply with the sign, you don’t agree with the argument. In other words, the sign proposes what you should do, but it’s up to us to follow it and agree with the argument or disagree with it.
Correlation: It does not matter who posts an argument, as long as there is an argument to be told someone can argue it. Whether that be a sign posted by a civilian or us making an argumentative essay.
-Door sign riddle: We could write “Re-close door” instead. We can still get our point across, even if we shorten what we are trying to communicate. This creates less blah blah and allows us to communicate our intentions of our argument clearly.
-The first 10 alphabets only use the top two rows, the next ten is the same thing, but adds one dot in the left bottom corner.
-Braille riddle: Why is there braille at the drive-thru window?
That is a good question because blind people who need to read this braille should probably not be driving. With Hodges including this was not actually true, but instead it was on an ATM machine, it makes more sense.
-Make sure rhetoric is included in our visual argument as much as we include visuals. We should share the feelings and judgments we see in the video and add it to our writing in order to allow readers to understand what is going on and what they should be understanding/feeling; they should know the bigger idea as well.
*Make sure to give what type of feedback we want because it leads Hodges to focus on things that we probably did not want advice on. It gives extra work for him and we don’t even need it.
-Don’t be broad in our opening sentence, get straight to the point. For instance, instead of starting with “many different coping mechanisms”, get straight to what thing we are actually focusing on in our writing.
-Don’t forget we can add an illustration/picture to our writing to include more feelings in our text. One picture = a thousand words.
-All writings works the same way: makes a promise and delivers a prize. The secrecy of our promises/prizes, will allow the readers to decide whether to follow this reader or to just give up on it. . No one wants to be in suspense for a long time. This leads back to the idea of getting to the point in our writings.
-Going back and forth between a promise and a prize will allow the readers to stay engage. What we need the readers to understand and then providing evidence/information is key to this back and forth.
Great Example:
-Don’t be broad in our opening sentence, get straight to the point. For instance, instead of starting with “many different coping mechanisms”, get straight to what thing we are actually focusing on in our writing.
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Class Notes 11.4.24
Nice:
Insinuate your stance on something with your claim “most of the teen vapers who died this year” already portrays this.
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Street signs are proposal argument because it tells us what to do, and we abide the laws of driving because there will be consequences if we break them. However a sign under certain circumstances is not credible, but it can give insights to the driver.
An example that was given about signs under the riddle of “Does Not Understand Door” is the Rowan sign that said “Please Keep Door Close”. There’s a flaw to that proposal because people who wanted to get out will use that door to get out. If the sign is worded differently then there wouldn’t be any problem.
The Braille Riddle is a braille on pavements or city streets that helps guide blind people to get to their destination. As to why the translation of the alphabet is not from left to right and so forth in each letter is because when you slide across the braille horizontally, you can’t tell when each of the dots would end. There is a pattern of how the alphabets are made for the braille is by using the first ten letter of the alphabet with certain dots, and avoid adding dots on the third row, and then duplicate the same pattern of the first ten and add additional dots to it. The riddle that is given is translated to “Why is there braille at the drive-thru window?” The answer is to inform people that there are cars behind them.
How to start the first paragraph of the definition paragraph? It is by telling the readers a singular method than stating many other possibilities. How do you interest the readers attention? You can present an image to show your claims because an image can be said in 1,000 words.
Readers don’t care about how big the promise is. Readers need both periodic evidence and fulfillment of that promise. It is by intriguing your readers by setting up a promise, and then deliver the prize. It is like setting up a punchline. Adding your claims first is a promise and then follow-up with evidence is the prize for the readers. An example of promises and prizes is the “Three Billion Carnaries in the Coal Mines” where the author shows ethical claims from the first paragraph, and then followed up with background information.
Great analogy
It is by intriguing your readers by setting up a promise, and then deliver the prize. It is like setting up a punchline.
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Are street signs proposal arguments?
Riddle
Promises and prizes
Your appreciation for Braille earns you an extra point.
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All street signs are argument. The sign depends on sign gives reliable advice. resonal advice depending on the circumstance. if the sign that has autority.
Covering the whole topic in one introduction
Promises and Prizes
frequency if on determining prizes the better your viewership
Here’s what I need you to understand here the evidence.
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11/4/24
Street Signs
Braille Riddle
Visual Rewrite Notes
Expressive Writing.. Notes
Too many good notes to copy them all.
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11/4/24 Class Notes
Notes
11/04/24
STREET SIGNS
DOES NOT UNDERSTAND DOORS
The Braille Riddle
Visual Rhetoric
PROMISES AND PRIZES
Make sure to put feedback please on revisions
Not quite, but good notes anyway:
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Class Notes 11.4.24
Strong throughout
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Class Notes – 11/4/24
Good when you choose to write them.
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class Notes 11/4/24
This might be brilliant:
To keep your readers happy makes a promise and reward a prize ( most teens who died bought boot-leg e-cigs <— better ) get all details to in the start to pull reader in don’t drag it out.
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Class Notes 11/04
Just beautiful.
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10/30
Perfect
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Class Notes 11/4/24
Try to avoid using not. Instead describe what they did do or use a word that describes the actual situation. Saying that someone did not do something is much less effective than saying the actual action.
First paragraphs are important. Make sure the first sentence gives the reader something, a hook. Give them at least some inclination as to what your argument may be. Show your opinion from the start. Make a bold claim, say what you mean, don’t beat around the bush.
All writing needs to give the reader a promise and then deliver a prize. Make sure all writing has a promise and then deliver on those promises. Make the reader want your information and then deliver on it. Part of making a promise is making the reader want what you are promising. Give them a reason to care and then deliver the information that they now want to know all about.
Very nice.
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Love your Braille notes, start to finish:
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Class notes:
Wonderful.
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Class notes 11/4:
Riddle Signs- signs say things but we have the choice to follow them, nobody obeys the speed limit, they depend on legitimacy and consequences.
Riddle: Does Not Understand Doors- Make sure door is closed after it is used, don’t prop door open. Positive verbs are stronger than negative ones, more ethically charged.
Red square- for blind people to know where safe walking areas begin and end
The Braille Riddle- Production efficiency, Braille was invented by a 17-year-old to make it easy to learn and read for the blind; riddle answer- Why is there braille at the drive-thru window?; Notes are made using a stylus to poke holes in the paper, so they have to be made backwards to make them understandable
Promises and Prizes- makes promises and delivers prizes to readers, make them both quick to keep attention of readers, include info in first paragraph
Writing Skills- visual rhetoric- analysis and description should be 50/50, needs to apply meaning to what is being described, description should match video, Definition Argument- first sentence should hook readers into reading the rest of paper, be straight to the point and clear, don’t wander, pictures are a good idea,
Assignments:
Causal 11/5
Promises and Prizes In-Class Task for WED NOV 01
Very nice.
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Mongoose Notes – 11/4/2024
– Street Signs are Proposal Arguments – Does the author mean it, do they have authority, are there any consequences.
Riddle: Wording is important, as using positive or negative verbs can help charge a sentence.
Positive Verb: Please close door after exiting
Negative Verb: Don’t hold door open
Braile: A very genius way of making an alphabet, especially with the way the dot placement works, and is easy to learn. It is also a great example to phrase perfectly and word management.
Why is there braille at the drive-thru window?
Dissecting Work: Visual Rhetoric needs to have the rhetoric part, not just description. Describe what is learned or assumed, even if you are wrong or need to revise what you just wrote literally the next second. A reader is not a viewer, and the reader needs to understand the impact that each item has when described. Question the images, why are they there?
Keep readers happy: When making promises, you have to give rewards to continue to keep the reader hooked. There needs to be definitions, information, and clear cut things that the reader needs to learn from the point of the paragraph. You cannot make claims or sentences that mean nothing in the context of that paragraph.
This also means when you make no promises, you cannot award any prizes.
Love this:
This also means when you make no promises, you cannot award any prizes.
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Class Notes 11/4
-Riddle: Street signs are proposal arguments, depending on legitimacy, credibility, and consequences.
-A positive verb is more powerful then a negative verb. Reclose the door is positive.
-Braille Riddle: Why is there braille at the drive-thru window. A French man names Braille created this system of reading and writing using dots to represent the language.
-Readers can be mislead by the beginning of an argument as moral judgements take place. We shouldn’t assume that readers will assume information if we do not provide them with it.
-Expressive writing can be used in different ways as a hook to grab the readers attention. It can help individual express stress, trauma, and tension.
-Pictures can be more telling and feeling inducing in out text
-A prize can encourage readers to be able to understand the reading then provide evidence to back it up
Very nice.
Spelling Note: The PAST TENSE of “to mislead” is “misled.”
-Readers can be mislead by the beginning of an argument
—Readers can be MISLED by the beginning of an argument.
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Street signs are proposals you say?!
“This proposal is a proposal in my opinion, and you should feel happy and sad at the same time about this, because I just you to feel this way.” This kind of sums up our class in a meta tongue-and-cheek way.
Let’s start with the elephant in the room that we started our class with–street signs are just a proposal. Ok, so stop signs are just proposals, yea? There is going to be some natural selection and Darwin Awards for people that give stop signs such low status a “mere suggestion”. Stop signs are law, which is today’s equivalent of a ruler in ancient Egypt or Greece declaring godhood or divinity in to keep order.
I mean if you live in a happy rich suburb with no crime (and probably a strange conspiratorial limited diversity of heritage) the police there will make sure you never question the law again.
Ok, so the argument as I now understand it, is that we can see the hole in the authority of law, by extreme conditions such as threat of death. Ok yea sure,
In certain infamous urban areas (not always, but once again some strange conspiracy) where crime is known to be high, the police there will literally encourage you run red lights and break traffic law if you see someone approach your car. That or they will yell at you for getting off at the wrong exit and being a liability and to get out of this neighborhood.
I guess you could argue in scenarios where danger is present, traffic signs are just a suggestion. Just be careful which flavor of officer you try to argue that to in order to not get a ticket.
Also, if I remember correctly, you can “plead necessity”. Pleading Necessity is kind of like “pleading the fifth” except it looks a lot better to the general public! When pleading necessity, you acknowledge that you did something bad like break into someone’s store, but you did it to take cover from the imminent tornado threat heading your way, so therefore you cannot be faulted legally for breaking the store’s door to get in or trespassing. The Necessity Defense in Criminal Law Cases | Criminal Law Center | Justia
When talking about signs, a good question is who posted the sign? You or the government? Like O.M.G. How funny would that be if civilians took traffic into their own hands…
Oh wait…😓
They did…
How Activists Are Making Streets Safer When Their Governments Won’t — And How You Can, Too — Streetsblog USA
Yeaaa…that brings a whole new meaning to “for the people, by the people” in a way I do not like.
Anyway, civilian signs are usually the ones up for debate. Every home in Ocean city has a civilian sign that portrays the silhouette of a dog pooping with a giant red “X” over it. Dog walkers will consider the suggestion the sign is implying for a second, before then allowing their dog to defecate on your perfectly trimmed lawn.
I personally can see the argument for civilian signs being suggestions, like my neighbor telling me who to vote for this election year, or my other neighbor telling me his confederate flag is not anti-American, but instead very American, or the guy on street corner holding up cardboard signs about politicians he doesn’t like being satanic worshipers. Freedom of speech is not exactly the same as “freedom of in-depth nuance, complexity, and good faith arguments while maintaining civility and exclusively sticking to facts and truth, while also avoiding logical fallacies.” I guess.
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For the description of the visual rhetoric argument (film assignment). In my own words (not the professor’s): pretend you are one of those crappy AI generators trying to describe a scene. Ok, after you generate generic picture to text stuff for blind people, go to the next step, append to it a hot take, a hotter than hot sauce opinion.
Example:
We see guy with a striped shirt looking into the refrigerator…
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(Ok, cool, good job, now get judgmental about this guy! What do you mean you don’t know anything about this guy?!
Look, don’t worry, Martin Luther King Jr. only said, “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Clearly the moral of this quote is that we can still judge the ever-living $%@# out of people for the color of their shirts and it’s not evil. Ok, lets judge this shirt.)
The boy wears a green striped shirt– of the well behaved and slightly nerdy kids of the middle class. His father in the background wears purple buttoned down dad-shirt– that is a popular pick in good paying nerdy STEM jobs.
(Ok good so far. Now let’s make assumptions about why the dad is smiling.)
The dad is smiling, proud of his son successfully doing his volcano science assignment and following into the STEM footsteps of his dad to a successful future.
(Great, you are a natural at this! Anything else you want to add?)
We can tell that the dad is successful and makes lots of money because that fridge is stocked to the brim with different products despite record prices for groceries affecting Americans this election year!
(I don’t think that’s exactly what the director was going for, but I’ll give you a pass.)
Bam, judging everything!
Look I say “judge” because sometimes you might have to reach for straws, but if you can take the high-road and deduce like Sherlock Holms, do that instead.
Either way you spin it, at the end of the day have an opinion that serves as a conclusion to the information you are given for the visual rhetoric assignment.
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For our augments make sure to jump straight into the meat and potatos of your argument in the first sentence!
Example:
“Individuals use many coping mechanisms, some are better than others.”
Could instead be clickbait-y and an audience instantly if we instead use.
“One secret way cope with stress you need to know about.”
If anyone argues it’s not a secret, tell them “These scientists and I know it, while you and most of the world doesn’t; sounds like a secret to me!”
On needing a treat. Make sure to make a claim, then give a prize, AKA “what I need you to understand, then evidence”.
Then go back to what you need the audience to understand than again slap them with the evidence.
So first make a claim or information they should know like: “Birds dying across the U.S. is more than a metaphor for the old adage ‘Canary in a coalmine’.”
Then make sure you don’t forget to reward your audience by telling them they are #$%@#$: “However in the coalmine of earth there’s nowhere to run.”
Also important to remember to be specific when giving good intro lines or headlines. Something generic like “people dying…” is not good and should be changed instead to “teens that are dying from vaping….”.
Sounds like you got it. And yes, judging is all we’re required and expected to do when presented with a 30-second TV spot. If your take on that is that you resent being manipulated, that’s fine. Just identify how you’re being manipulated and report on whether the attempt was successful. Every observation you made about street signs confirms that they are proposal arguments.
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Class notes 11/4/24
I would definitely be on the side of not breaking the law and getting a ticket even if it’s 3am and i’m coming home from work or somewhere.
Comment
Good enough.
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11/4
We begin with a visual of a road sign it seem with the text not being of its nature.Itreads “Street Signs are proposal Arguments”, which when thinking on it makes sense when your not on the road yourself.Not worrying about the threat of a ticket or going to jail.It is a suggestion at best to yeild to whatever the sign is.A stop sign is meant to stop you but it may also be taken as “Stop here?”, you could stop or you could just blow it off on your own judgment like nothing.Same thing would go for Yeild or No Turn on Red signs, they are Proposals to a topic in the name of driving.
Then we go over the same idea with a sign on the door to the entrance of a building saying “Please keep door closed”.Another Porposal argument that asks to keep the entrance closed after use, with this we begin to use both positive and negative verbs to morph it and change it while still keeping the message clear and sound.A positive way to say it is “remove door stopper after use” a different, simple and understandable way of conveying what the sign is saying.A Negative way would be saying “don’t hold door open” a more blunt but effective way to say what you mean as a writer.
We then have a fun riddle to solve in Braille as a tactile guide found on pavements or city streets, designed to assist blind individuals in navigating their way to their destinations. The Braille alphabet isn’t simply laid out from left to right, letter by letter, because when you move your fingers across the Braille horizontally, it’s hard to tell exactly where each letter ends. The system itself is structured with the first ten letters of the alphabet represented by specific dot patterns, avoiding the third row of dots. Then, the pattern for these ten letters is repeated, adding additional dots to form the rest of the alphabet. The riddle you might encounter reads: “Why is there Braille at the drive-thru window?” The answer is to remind people that cars may be lining up behind them.
Then we discuss the best way to improve out Definition essay by just going over a few things like, to begin the first paragraph of a definition essay, it’s effective to introduce a single method before exploring other possibilities. This approach helps establish a clear direction. As for capturing your reader’s attention, one powerful technique is to paint a vivid image because, as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. As well as the element of making promise to your audience at every turn of the essay and holding you end of fulfilling it, Saying that Readers aren’t concerned with the scale of a promise. What matters is both the evidence you provide and the fulfillment of that promise. To engage your audience, start by presenting a compelling promise, then deliver on it with solid evidence. It’s similar to setting up a punchline: the promise is your initial claim, and the evidence that follows is the payoff. A great example of this is “Three Billion Canaries in the Coal Mine,” where the author opens with ethical claims and then supports them with background information.
Wonderful.
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By paying attention to the miniscule details in the world around you, you can begin to notice wonderfully complex aspects of life hidden in plain sight. Going into extreme detail means nothing if you are missing the meaning behind it. The why something is somewhere is much more impactful and important than the where something is or what something is. Avoid opening with a broad approach to introductions. Most people know that “there are many ways” to do whatever it is you are talking about so focus on specifically what it is you are suggesting. “Promises and prizes” Give periodic promises with statements that have evidence to back it up, along with following through on giving a payoff for introducing these statements. These prizes and promises can be what grasps the reader’s attention as well as what keeps them reading to look for these payoffs. The promises will use statements to create questions for the readers which will be answered in the prize line. What I need the reader to understand, then follow with the evidence.
Very thoughtful
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11/4
Good stuff
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Class Notes 11/4
Issues is a SNOOZE word.
“Most teen vaping DEATHS stem from unregulated e-cigs”
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